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- - West gate White House. - mrs. Lorecla Zyrung- SPEECH TO BE DELIVERED BY SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN BEFORE THE TRAFFIC CLUB OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, AT ITS ANNUAL DINNER ON FEBRUARY 1, 1944. RELEASE ON DELIVERY RELEASE ON DELIVERY Mr. Chairman, and members of the Traffic Club of Baltimore, I appre- ciate the opportunity of speaking to you on the subject of transportation. I have long been interested in this subject. As many of you know, I have been a member of the Interstate Commerce Committee of the United States Senate since 1935. In a sense, therefore, I feel that I am one of you because, like you, an important part of my interests and responsibilities as a Senator - are con- cerned with transportation. Associations such as yours perform a very real and useful service, not only in establishing and maintaining contacts among users and operators of transportation systems which facilitate the handling of day-to-day operations, butialso in furnishing a medium for the interchange of ideas and information, thus improving knowledge and leading to the rendering of better service. In my remarks to you tonight, I would like to address myself to two general subjects. First, transportation under wartime conditions; and, second, plons for transportation in the postwar period. I shall make no attempt to cover either of these subjects, but will make only a few observations and comments which will serve to indicate my own personal views and philosophy. As you know, the Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program, of which I am the Chairman, has devoted considerable attention to the study of transportation and filed a report on this subject about the middle of December. In this study, of course, the Committee was not concerned with funda- mental changes in the structure of our transportation systems, but only in S NARA